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Michigan House OKs spending on jobless benefits, flood costs

by Associated Press
| September 1, 2020 1:27 PM

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan lawmakers on Tuesday began approving a budget bill that would authorize the federal government's supplemental $300-a-week unemployment benefit during the coronavirus pandemic and provide $6 million in state funding for costs related to devastating flooding in the Midland area.

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